Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and Sikh temples is a highly emotive issue in Punjab and among Sikhs, who view the holy book as their 11th guru. A man was beaten to death by a mob after an alleged sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the police said on Saturday. According to reports, the man had jumped over the railing inside the Golden Temple during the daily evening prayer and tried to touch the sword kept in front of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of…

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Shivpal Yadav, broke away from the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2017 elections and formed his own party, has indicated for long that he is interested in an alliance. But there has been no reciprocation from his nephew Akhilesh Yadav. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, who is emerging as the big challenger to the BJP ahead of the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, has agreed to mend fences with his estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav. After a 45-minute meeting between the two in Lucknow, Akhilesh Yadav tweeted a picture of him…

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E Sreedharan was fielded by BJP as the CM candidate, but the party failed to win even one seat in the assembly elections. 90-year-old E. Sreedharan, popularly known as “Metro Man”, has said that he is no longer interested in active politics. This comes months after he had contested in Kerala’s assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.  “I won’t be in active politics. That time has passed. I haven’t given up (politics), but…

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The recordings – 84 of them – have been submitted by the Enforcement Directorate to a Delhi court to help nail Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who has been in jail since 2017. While a former billionaire is in jail, his wife spends hours on the phone discussing payments to obtain bail for him. She seems to believe that she is talking to senior government officials, including the Home Secretary of the country. She asks for a meeting with the Home Minister – and is told it will happen in due time if…

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Genome sequencing at this centre can take up to a maximum of 72 hours and an additional day or two for bioinformatic details when full capacity. Thiruvananthapuram:  After confirming the first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Kerala is running the genome sequencing tests on 30 more samples at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram. As NDTV stepped into the laboratory – where the initial 8-hour preparatory work on the samples is done – the team members were seen wearing Personal Protective Equipment or PPE kits, working…

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Pushed to the margins of West Bengal politics, the CPI(M)-led Left Front is pinning hopes on its young brigade of ‘Red Volunteers’ to recover lost ground among the urban electorate in the upcoming Kolkata civic polls. The Left Front, which had ruled the state uninterrupted for three decades, has for the first time failed to open its account in the 294-member House during the assembly polls held earlier in the year. It had last won civic polls in the metropolis in 2005. Faced with an existential crisis, the CPI(M), this…

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Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were cremated with full military honours at the Brar Square crematorium here on Friday. Gen Rawat, his wife, and 11 other defence personnel were killed when a Mi17V5 helicopter carrying them crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. The mortal remains of General Bipin Rawat and his wife were cremated at Brar Square cremation ground. Their two daughters performed the last rites. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union minister Kiren Rijiju, Ambassador of…

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Yesterday sources said the centre had indicated it is willing to offer a written assurance on a number of the farmers’ demands, including a committee on MSP. Farmers who have spent the last 15 months protesting the farm laws and pushing for a legal guarantee for MSP, are on the brink of scaling down their agitation after accepting a second draft proposal from the government, which includes assurances on MSP and withdrawal of police cases. “We have accepted the revised draft given by the centre over our demands in regard to farmers…

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Gen Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, his wife and 11 other armed forces personnel died on Wednesday after the military helicopter they were travelling in crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said. The lone survivor, Group Captain Varun Singh, is currently under treatment at a military hospital in Wellington, it said. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he was “deeply anguished” by the sudden demise of Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others in an “extremely unfortunate helicopter” accident. “Gen Bipin Rawat, Chief…

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Opposition parties continued their protest over the suspension of 12 MPs on Tuesday with a ‘dharna’ in Parliament premises that saw several leaders holding up placards demanding revocation of the action taken. Earlier in the day, Rajya Sabha resumed its proceeding at 11 am. Soon after, it was adjourned for almost three hours till 2 pm. Thereafter, some opposition members gathered at the place where the suspended MPs along with other colleagues were sitting on ‘dharna’ holding up placards with slogans such as ‘Save Democracy’, ‘Save India’ and ‘Revoke Rajya…

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